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Environmental policy lacks targets and deadlines - PL

Leo Brincat.

Leo Brincat.

All government entities should be involved in the implementation of the National Environmental Policy for this to be a holistic document, the PL's Environment spokesman, Leo Brincat, said this morning.

Addressing a news conference he said that policy lacked targets and deadlines and the few it had were due in the next legislature.

This meant that the present government was failing to make itself accountable.

A Labour government, Mr Brincat said, would take stock of the existing environmental situation and establish some sort of regular monitoring and review system to draw up benchmarks.

Two environmental key issues Malta needed to face, he said, were air quality and environmental health.

The PL, he said, had never shirked from taking difficult decisions in terms of the environment and it would continue to do so in the future.

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Mario Grima

Sep 16th 2011, 14:20

Can you please tell us how the population stands today, it's probably underground, which is worse off than on it's knees!! And when you mention that under the MLP taxes will flourish, are you trying to make us laugh? If there is one party who has crippled the country with corruption, high taxes, high unemployment, rampant costs, frozen wages, unkept promises, lousy bus service, arrogance and what not, it is the PN.

Mario Grima

Sep 16th 2011, 13:21

" The only hope is if the EC starts putting it's foot down in such matters for things to improve"

Can I ask where was the EC when the BWSC saga was brought to their attention? How can the EC be taken seriously when the power station would run on crude oil instead of gas as was promised by GonziPN?

Mr Emanuel Curmi

Sep 16th 2011, 15:42

@Mario Grima
The EC is not really concerned about the drama concerning our new power station because, although it stinks of corruption or just plain incompetence, it is fullfiling it's basic requirement that of improving emissions over a dinosaur system like Marsa's. Otherwise we wudn't be having a saga in the first place because the government wud have simply prolonged the usage of the Marsa Power Station interminably if the EC didn't put it's foot down.
The safe disposal of the sludge arising from oil fuel is another issue because the handling of toxic material involves strict control otherwise this government wud probably let it run thru our drainage system of simply dump it into the sea.
Are you still so naive as to still believe any promises made by either party ?

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